The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-12-17
ALL OVER THE STATE.
tleanings from our Maryland Exchanges

| Two Of the deputies Of the Republican Sheriff
| d Howard county are Democrats.
| Since October 18th the treasurer OF Hartford
cunty has paid $6l50 in bounties for hawk
| bads
| Mr.. Scott Amos has sold his farm of 1870 acres,
mar Highland Station, Maryland Central R. R.,
I, Mr. John Robinson, for $4,000.
| The citizens of Westminster have formed an
Improvement company" the object being to ad-
vance the business interests of that town.
/ The Commissioners of Allegany county have
l~aeduced their clerks salary from $500 to 5000
yer year, and their attorneys from $500 to $500
| Ter year.
| Amos Caylor, a we'll known citizen of West
Minister, and prominent elder of the Dunkard
Church, has become insane and has been sent to
an asylum.
WIN. Mcintyre, who fifty years ago drove
enc of the mail stages running between Baltimore
and Philadelphia, died at his home near Oxford,
Pa, lately.
-Oystermen say that oysters have not been so
fine and plentiful since the war as this year, and
that the demand for them is SO great that prices
are we'll kept up.
A six year-old daughter of Mr.. VIM. Staus-
bury, Clermont Mills, Hartford county, was
lately burned to death, her clothing having taken
fire from stove.
The peach acreage on the Eastern Shore is to
be very largely increased next spring, more trees
having been contracted for this fall than during
any previous season.
Mrs. John W. Wilmer of Westminster, has
received from the company in which her husband
had his life insured check for $4,000, the
amount of his policy.
There is talk Of starting an ice factory in
Hagerstown. The necessary machinery, it is said,
will cost about $12, 900, and ice can be made at
q cost of $3.50 per ton.
There are said to be $4,000 persons engaged
in dredging, scraping and longing for oysters in
Maryland waters. The State gets about $12, 500
yesT Tor SHsssys nss ssnds ss6t of nv.,
freshets in that county few years ago washed
away nearly all the bridges and the present debt
is the result of that disaster.
Mr.. James J. Archer, fourth son of the late
Henry W. Archer, has been admitted to the Har
ford county bar He is graduate of the Mary
land University Law School.
There is talk in Anne Arundel county Of
turning down Hon. Barnes Compton and putting
up Hon. Michael Bannon as the Democratic can
didate for Congress next year.
Westminster Advocate "The Seven Plaques
of Baltimore-The Belt, the Basin, Jones' Falls,
the Gas, Street Digging, the Baltimore and Ohio
Deal, and the Reform League"
have change in their system of road-mendug
and the Legislature will be asked to grant the
necessary RELIEF in the shape of new law.
Mr.. Arthur Vosbury, president of the First
National Bank of Havre-de Grace, has, lately
nodded his dwelling and it is now one of the
handsomest and most complete houses in the State.
The Baltimore Conference of the M. E..
Church holds it's next session in the First M. E..
Church, Baltimore, beginning on the 7th of March.
Bishop Hurst will preside for the first time over
the conference.
The annual statement of the Hartford county
| School Board for the year ended September 30th,
shows that the receipts for the year were ,247,-
| SO, and the balance on hand, after all expenses
were paid, was 81 ,40234.
Among the sportsmen of Anne Arundel co1n-
| ty is Mr. Nicholas Owens, who is now in his 10Th
| year. He was formerly considered one Of the best
shots in the county, and last week, to try his hand,
he went out and killed five partrides in six shots.
| The jury in the case of George H. Boyd,
who was tried at Belair the charge of stealing
gold watch from H. C. Lawder, of Havre-de-
| grace, failed to agree and was discharged. Boyd
was a deputy sheriff at the time the alleged theft
| was committed.
The ong-continued drouth in Frederick
county has been partially broken, some rain hav-
ing fallen there within the last ten days. 1t was
| getting to be quite a serious matter with some
farmers who were obliged to haul water for their
| stock long distances.
The Maryland Lutheran Synod, at its last
session, passed q resolution 'that in favor
of legislative enactments, state and national COM
| pletely extirpating the saloon, and thus freeing
| the home, the church and the nation from this
terrible and abominable iniquity."
"A man from Michigan has been working on
| Caroline county farmers and has beaten them out
of about $1,000. 1t was the same old oats scheme
only in this he called the stuff, "White Star"
oats, which he sold to them for SIS bushel, TAX
| ing their notes and skipping after having them
| discounted.
Hon. A. P. German and other Maryland
| Democratic leaders advocate reduction of the
tariff, but oppose placing coal on the free list or
reducing the present tariff this particular arti
Gle, as it would likely ruin one of our great pro-
ducts.-Frederick Citizen. Don't Senator Cor
rue burning OF the barn Of Theodore Tracey,
in Manchester district was one of the most disas-
| trous CONGREGATIONS of the kind ever known in
| Carroll county. The barn was new, As by SO feet,
| and burned with it were 80 steers and other
cattle, colt, 400 bushels of wheat $500 bushels
of corn, $50 bushels of OATS 60 tons of hay, 5000
bundles of blades lot of straw, threshing machine,
six sets of new harness, tanning mill and about
| 500 worth of small articles. The total loss was
$4,000, upon which there is an insurance of about
| $500.